Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-27
THE FASHIONS.
NOTES or INTEREST FOR OUR LADY
READERS
The Prominence Of Laces-Costumes for
Children Street Wraps-Jewelled
Garters-Hat shapes.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispa.ch.I

NEW YORK. November 70, 1887.
As / remarked in previous letter,
lace will form a very prominent item
in the fashionable evening dress of the
season. 1t will be used on almost every
rich costume worn, young ladies and old
favoring it equally. This popularity has
been, not unnaturally, the cause OF
"boom in the lace manufacture. The
makers are reaping harvest New and
exquisite kinds and designs of lace are
shown, and the variety is endless. There
is nothing, however, IN buying which
you can so easily make a mistake, and
one has TO be an expert in order 10 buy
The filmy fabric advantageously. Hyou are
spending a large sum, the finer varieties
are decidedly the best to get, if only for
investment purposes. Real Nalenciennes,
Point d'Aloncon, Venetian Point, etc,
lin smaller quantities pay very much bet
ter than the cheap machine laccs that are
$50 common.
Costumes for little children seem to
be SIMPLER than they were "a short time
Isince They needed reform in this d.
ERECTION. They had been elaborated to
the verge of absurdity. The full surah
vest, of late so prominent on dresses for
the little ones. is retained for outdoor
wear. but the skirt is always untrlmmed;
il is usually killed. Young children
usually manage to work more destruc-
ton upon their clothes playing about
the house than they do anywhere else.
To relieve this evil the child's wrapper
is tho cleverest contrivance. Ii is lit
tie yoke dress of heavy, warm wOollen
material, with loose sleeves, and in every
way except size resembles the garments
the children's mothers wear during the
early hours OF the day. These little
wrappers are absolutely indestructble,
warm, and comfortable, and are just the
things for the little ones TO wear indoors
Children's street wraps are little heavy,
rough, double-breasted woollen coats,
brought in Mt the waist, and with loose
skirts. They have hoods behind and
broad sashes around their middle.
The boa has ciinched the new hold
which it acquired upon the fair ones Tor
heir pretty thrOatsl last season aud APP
Bears once more. longer than ever. 1t
sill be worn of the same fur as the null
nd shoulder-cape.
Russian lambs wool, dyed black, is
tshionable for muils
Little capOtes covered with velvet and
wrought with jet and colored bead de-
signs. their garniture being of ribbons,
are fashionable for matrOnly heads.
Young ladies are wearing hlgh-crown-
cd felt shapes with rolling brims. These
brims are lined with SHRED velvet, and
their trimming consists of ostrich plumes
or whole birds. Birds of Paradise are
the modish ornaments for such hats.
Jewelled gayters are no novelty.
Probably the band which encircled the
Countess of Salisbury SWOLLEN hose was
well worth picking up even by n king, and
ever since that time women who could
afford the luxury have clasped their gar
tiers with gems.
Now. however, they constitute the
latest fad, and are worn by every one.
Indeed, il is more proper for one to eX-
pend ones money for jewelled garter
Cor pair of them than for a pair of ear
rings.
Many of the new varieties are COM /
posed entirely of metal. Little golden
links, fiat and square. and frequently
with turquOises or garnets set in all of
them, compose the garter proper The .
clasps are Of exquisite workmanship, and
contain a very pretty sprinkling of dia- .
monds, which vary in size with the .
wealth of the wearer.
1t is expected that these elegant triAes
will form a favorite Christmas gift. A
pair of gemmed garters to accompany
the inevitable pair of Christmas silk .
stockings will be highly appropriate.
Outdoor wraps are Ill great variety.
Furs seem to have suffered no diminu-
ton of popularity, but some of the
dressy little fancy plush wraps upon
which lace and embroidery and Jet .
trimming have been bestowed are quite .
as expensive as their fur sisters. and de- .
cidedly more dressy and becoming
Long, untrimmed plush wraps in
Newmarket shapes with shoulder-capes
are also among the stylish wrappings OF
the year They are made very full and
flowing plush shapes so nicely, You
know and when tine lady wearing one
is possessed of a Junoesque form the
amount of material required and the
amount of the bill for the material are
tremendous. In fact, these long plush
wraps are not commendable on e3onomi-
cal grounds to any but ladies Of sylph
like figure.
Velvet and plush figure sparingly in
the new woollen walking-dresses. An
occasional side panel or skirt trimming
NAV be observed, but nothing beyond
that. The stylish promenade costumes
are plain in make and materials. They
seem TO depend for their effect upon the
tyle of the draperies. Here perfection has
been at last attained. The drapery on
one of these fashionable "robes " is
thing of beauty and JOY forever. How
the effects are obtained only Heaven
land the nlodistes) know. The set and
lines are altogether more graceful and
charming than anything seen in past
years. All this, too, with minimum Of
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